The Media and the Iraq War

Commentary: Media should be exposing Iraq War’s years of ineptitude

January 4, 2012 - The U.S. war in Iraq ended just before Christmas, and if you blinked you probably missed it. TV news coaxed some seasonal sentiment out of the troops getting home for the holidays, but the Sunday-morning talk shows — where news of consequence is usually autopsied — barely noticed.

The Beltway sages had weightier matters to discuss, such as the Gingrich ascendancy and the latest congressional standoff.

The silence was understandable because the topic is so awkward. The Iraq war wasn’t a defeat, like Vietnam. But it wasn’t a win either: Saddam Hussein is long gone, but the strategic menace the invasion was meant to thwart was bogus, the installation of democracy seems shaky at best, and the country seems on the verge of tearing itself apart again.

Besides, the Iraq victory lap was used up back in 2003 when George W. Bush, in a supreme moment of presidential buffoonery, pranced across a carrier deck in flight regalia to declare peace just as a calamitous civil war was starting.

So while the news media might like to imply that the war concluded successfully, that’s a hard case to make, especially with our Iraqi friends referring to it as a “foreign occupation.” read more>>>

Still No Accountability as the World Waits but Especially those on the receiving end of our years of terror reaped on them, as we still condemn others for what is now Very Publicly Known of what we do and the many within that supported it all but especially didn't nor won't serve!!

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No Revenues = No Sacrifice = No Support = DeJa-Vu all over again!. Now a decade and counting added to the previous decades of under funding the VA, while the peoples reps Still try and lay blame on the Agency, after rubber stamping wars and costs of and those represented cheer on these wars!

While the wealthy and other investors garner their booty, still, from both and many have the chutz·pa to call themselves more patriotic{?} then others wrapped in those false flags, using false slogans and various cheap symbols of!

USN '67-'71 All Shore GMG3 Vietnam In Country '70-'71 and not forgetting the joy and laughter with the 'purple heart bandages' nor the rest of the verbal and symbolic symbols spitting on us and all who didn't walk in lockstep with the criminal executive branch then!!